Maria del Carmen Díez

María del Carmen Díez Muñoz is a visual artist in the field of contemporary graphic art, specialising in burin engraving and multiple printmaking techniques. Her work deals with aspects referring to gender, questions about the future of women and their normalised representation obtained by a patriarchal heritage. These approaches focus on the harmful stereotypes that have been repeated over the centuries, which maintain a negative position with respect to women. Her proposals are based on a classical imaginary, which transcends to a re-reading that proposes variations towards an alternative representation of the hybrid body of women, creating diverse compositions that vindicate the importance of questioning the feminine role in our visual imaginary. She uses the images as an essential historical document to serve as a testimony and guide to the changes undergone by women. and guide to the changes undergone by our society. Social and aesthetic aesthetic codes that have been perpetuated and adapted over the centuries in our culture, in which we can see how women have been modified and interpreted with canons and preferences that are alien to them, transforming them into codes that have marked our current artistic expressions.